<p>“Does anyone still starch their shirts and bed linens?” </p>
<p>I would, but I’m too busy churning my own butter and helping my kids do their homework on a slate in front of the fireplace.</p>
<p>If you mean spread starch from a can and iron, yes when it comes to cotton dress shirt. We also iron table clothes that way.</p>
<p>I am not chopping wood or milking the cow, but I would be ironing and starching shirts and bed linens if I wasn’t chauffeuring my kids all over the place.</p>
<p>Ok,ok,smart alecs on this thread! Old fort, you are a meany for saying I’m mentally ill. Haha! 3togo, I just iron the pillowcases before they go in the linen closet, not daily! 20mins weekly isn’t too much time for me, and I get to shut the door in there and listen to Npr without somebody complaining…
I was in the Charlotte NC airport yesterday and because of this thread noticed a guy who had ironed the creases in his jeans. Never would have thought about it but it looked sort of dorky!</p>
<p>Dke, sorry, I was only quoting OP. I like my stuff ironed, so I must be mentally ill too.</p>
<p>I think it is kinda funny how out west in places like Colorado for some fancy dinners/receptions folks are asked to wear “dressy western” (pressed jeans with crease.) If I’m donating $10,000/ plate at a political fund raiser, I don’t know if I’d be happy sitting opposite folks wearing dungarees.</p>
<p>I went to h.s. with a guy who was blind, and his mother ironed his jeans. He was the only person I ever met who had a white crease down the front of his jeans from ironing (which he did not even know he had!) & his brother finally took pity on him & went to Mom to tell her to Knock It Off. </p>
<p>Honestly, I cannot believe some of you guys. Ironing tee shirts? Polo shirts? Jeans? Are you nuts? I fold all these things smoothly after I line dry them (or on hangers in the house, in winter). The folding makes them as smooth as if they were ironed, and honest to God, no one seems to notice that I do not have ironing creases in the sleeves of my tee shirts. Or think less of me for not having them. </p>
<p>We buy no-iron dress shirts & blouses & do some ironing of them if necessary. Usually it is not. </p>
<p>God, Fate, Nature, your genes–whatever—has only given you a certain number of hours in your lives. And some of you are spending a bunch of them ironing tee shirts! Holy Smoke, when you are on your deathbed do you think you are going to be saying, “I wish I had spent more time ironing?”</p>
<p>(However, I do iron the pillowcases and napkins which I have sewn myself, from 100% cotton. They do need it).</p>
<p>We fold underwear in this house because they fit into the drawers better if you do! That is the reason for the folded tees, too–you can glance in the drawer and see the bottoms edges & know how many clean ones are left, if they are colored you know whether the blue one is in there, etc. </p>
<p>And I also hang my shirts by color, and I have my spices in ABC order on the turntable in the kitchen cabinet. These are because I am lazy—if I know where they are, no wasting time looking for them.</p>
<p>That guy with the pressed jeans probably owns some oil/gas wells and more cattle than he can count. It’s just a local fashion. In Seattle nobody owns an iron–or so it appears.</p>
<p>dke’s worst nightmare: [Google</a> Images](<a href=“http://www.google.com/imgres?q=shar-pei&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1096&bih=516&tbm=isch&tbnid=PEckauR8J3vaKM:&imgrefurl=http://townsfinder.com/real_state/sharpei%2526page%253D6&docid=3vnTQo0ND3uOzM&w=381&h=336&ei=M9kyTvzjAuyFsALJhb2BCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=170&vpy=215&dur=353&hovh=209&hovw=237&tx=180&ty=182&page=19&tbnh=171&tbnw=194&start=157&ndsp=9&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:157]Google”>http://www.google.com/imgres?q=shar-pei&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1096&bih=516&tbm=isch&tbnid=PEckauR8J3vaKM:&imgrefurl=http://townsfinder.com/real_state/sharpei%2526page%253D6&docid=3vnTQo0ND3uOzM&w=381&h=336&ei=M9kyTvzjAuyFsALJhb2BCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=170&vpy=215&dur=353&hovh=209&hovw=237&tx=180&ty=182&page=19&tbnh=171&tbnw=194&start=157&ndsp=9&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:157)</p>
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<p>If I’m donating 10K/plate – I’ll wear whatever I da** well please, thank you very much. :)</p>
<p>“I remember when we were in our 20s we would not date guys with creases in their jeans.”</p>
<p>I remember SEWING creases in or jeans! They didn’t cost $100+ then.</p>
<p>I no longer wear jeans OR T-shirts. Well, not the kind with pictures and stuff. Son does not like wrinkles, daughter is okay with it.</p>
<p>Lizard and TutuTaxi: I believe your two posts (#111 and #106) nicely sum up the sartorial differences of opinions between the east and the west. </p>
<p>I am going to two east coast weddings (one in NY (not the City) and one in Boston suburbs) in the next few weeks, and I am absolutely certain that something I am wearing is going to offend someone there, possibly to the point of staring and sighing. Nonetheless, I am not buying a new dress or new shoes for the occasion; it’s hard enough to pay for the two trips!</p>
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<p>I feel as though part of my role in life is to give some people something to talk about. GO FOR IT DMD 77!</p>
<p>One of the other threads is talking about what is good about being over 50. The best part is not giving a hoot about what other people think.</p>
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<p>Put me in that group as well. We also have books alphabetized. It’s really easy to find stuff when you’re organized.</p>
<p>“I feel as though part of my role in life is to give some people something to talk about. GO FOR IT DMD 77!”</p>
<p>This might give the folks in NY and Mass. something to talk about:
<a href=“http://www.fantasiawear.com/costumes-rebel-BL-093R.html[/url]”>http://www.fantasiawear.com/costumes-rebel-BL-093R.html</a></p>
<p>You are too funny Schmaltz. Only you have to remember that she is NOT buying anything new.</p>
<p>If only I had the body for it.</p>
<p>dmd, if you promise to wear it and have somebody secretly video people’s reactions to it, I’ll send you the 49 bucks to buy it.</p>
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<p>That’s a tacky dress (sorry–my opinion). I think people in ANY part of the country would stare at someone wearing it, especially if she looked like the model. Why do people think that those of us who live on the east coast are always looking down at people who aren’t from here or whose clothes aren’t what’s typical in our area? I don’t judge people based on their place of residence or what they wear or their political views. I try to look at the whole person.</p>